Hair-straightening device.



No. 853,34 PATENTED MAY 14,1907. G. w. FIELDS.

HAIR STRAIGHTENING DEVICE. I APPLIGLTIOH FILED 00128, 1906.

GEORGE WASHINGTON FIELDS, OF' CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAIR-STRAIGHTENING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed October 8, 1906. Serial No. 337,969.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE WASHINGTON FIELDs, a citizen of the UnitedStates, re-- siding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented a new and useful Hair-Straightening Device, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hair-straightening devices, and it is moreparticularly an instrument designed to take the kinks or curls out ofhair that is naturally closely curled and to straighten this kind ofhair by means of heat and pressure applied thereto, and also by combingout with the instrument.

Another object is to provide an instrument of the class referred to,that is light, eflicient and durable and that can be operated with outan assistant.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in thenovel arrange ment and combination of parts, which will be hereinaftermore fully described, and pointed out in the claims. 4

In the accompanying drawings I have shown the preferred form of myinvention.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device. Fig. 2 isa sectional view on the line 22. Fig. 3 is a front elevation.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 3 is thehandle whichmay be of any preferred form but in this case the handle is composed ofan upper and lower portion held together by a pivot and provided with aspring 4, for pressing the engaged extremities of the handle toward eachother and so holding the device in a closed position.

5, 5 represent two plates or sections similarly shaped and provided witha flat smooth exterior surface. Toward the rear end of each plate issecured one of the prongs of the handle. The forward end of each plateis made thin as shown at 5 for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

The adjacent surfaces of the two plates or sections 5, 5 of theinstrument are fluted or formed in ridges near their forward extremitiesas shown at 6 thus giving these surfaces an undulating characterthroughout the rigid portion. These .undulating surfaces are preferablyso formed that the ridges of the one rest in the depressions of theother. On either side of these ridges and in immediate proximity theretoand protruding from the level portions of the adjacent surfaces Iprovide teeth 7 vertically disposed and so arranged that the teethprojecting from the upper surface occupy the spaces between the lowerteeth and vice versa as shown in Fig. 3.

In operation it is intended to have the iron heated over a gas jet or inany convenient manner, when the thin forward extremity of one portion ofthe instrument is placed as near as possible to the scalp, when strandsof hair after first being oiled, are taken in the fingers and placedbetween the teeth and also between the upper and lower ridged surfaces.These surfaces press the hair and hold it so that it may be gentlypulled and 4 drawn through the teeth by which it is combed andstraightened. Another purpose of the teeth is to hold the hair in smallgroups of strands in order that it may not become tangled.

Having fully described my invention What I desire to claim is A hairstraightening instrument comprising pivoted handles each provided at itsforward end with a fluted or ridged plate or section, and teethprojecting from the adjacent faces of said sections substantially as setforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE WASHINGTON FIELDS.

